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Enchanted Forest
Enchanted Forest
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Challenge: Dreams (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Olympus E-10
Location: swithland woods, leicestershire, england.
Date: Apr 30, 2005
Aperture: 1/13sec
ISO: 80
Shutter: f11.0
Galleries: Landscape, Nature
Date Uploaded: May 5, 2005

bluebells in woods.
neat image, levels, saturation, spot saturation.

Statistics
Place: 52 out of 114
Avg (all users): 5.6313
Avg (commenters): 6.1765
Avg (participants): 5.3902
Avg (non-participants): 5.7778
Views since voting: 923
Views during voting: 406
Votes: 217
Comments: 23
Favorites: 2 (view)


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05/18/2005 03:33:14 PM
Those low voters really hurt ya, I thought it was a very good image worthy of a 9
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05/13/2005 07:19:03 AM
One of my favorites in this challenge!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
05/12/2005 10:43:12 PM
Like the concept that you were after... it is a good idea. I'd have cropped just the center of the image where it is most 'enchanted' and tried for a very soft, dreamlike focus. There are good examples of what you want that are previous ribbon winners. It would benefit you to locate some of those previous winners and contact the photographers to see how they achieved their success. In fact, I'd like to learn how to do those well myself. :)
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05/12/2005 08:31:17 PM
There seems to be glare which washes out the center of the image. I don't generally care for photographs which are so saturated, but it seems appropriate in this case. I think that the image would have been stronger if the tree trunk and brown grass had been cropped out of the foreground. Alternatively, if you'd have rendered the periphery of the image (including the tree and dead grass) in B&W and only saturated the center of the image, the contrast between the "real world" and the enchanted forest would have been heightened. I'm not sure that editing like this is possible within Advanced editing rules, but it would be worth investigating.
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05/10/2005 11:41:13 AM
This is so glowing and gorgeous, what fantastic colors
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05/10/2005 08:12:41 AM
Reminds me of the Texas hill country. VERY nice!
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05/10/2005 02:54:19 AM
I love the colors in this photo! There seems to be a bit of glare in the center, perhaps from the sun? It's slightly distracting. But other than that it's a beautiful landscape!
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05/09/2005 04:44:58 PM
I'm not sure about the black edge on the frame, but I think this a beautiful image. I think it should win.
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05/08/2005 11:06:14 PM
seems overly saturated in some areas...and too bright in the center?
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05/08/2005 06:59:33 AM
nice dodging in the middle (if that is what you did) very dream like
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05/07/2005 04:35:06 PM
Strange color streaks over the meadow, guess that would interpret a dream actually....
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05/06/2005 03:17:53 PM
This reminds me of those Thomas Kincaid prints--very pretty!
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05/06/2005 01:52:17 PM
Very dreamy, although I find the colours of the ground a little overdone.
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05/06/2005 12:49:50 PM
This image seems to portary a dreamy mood however the lighting is very harsh and there seems to be something clouding the image only in the middle. This may have been intensional.
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05/06/2005 10:16:41 AM
I'm not sure I know how you did the coloring in this, but whatever you did, it works beautifully. (Perhaps you'll tell us in your notes) 10
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05/06/2005 09:55:38 AM
interesting concept for theme, nice colors, b&w's good, center a bit blown out, nice light
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05/06/2005 09:37:59 AM
Very nice..I love your use of color!
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05/06/2005 08:38:09 AM
really nice photo
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05/06/2005 07:17:16 AM
Nicely processed, really adds to the image and making it fit the challenge perfectly.
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05/06/2005 05:32:21 AM
I like the hazyness and the colour 8
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05/06/2005 03:10:19 AM
Just lovely
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05/06/2005 12:55:28 AM
What a delight for the senses. I particularly like the haziness in the center, as if something is on the verge of materializing.

Not a huge fan of the border however, particularly since it is not a uniform border all the way around, but thicker left/right than top/bottom. A simple, uniform white border of about 8-10 pixels all the way around would work best here.

Overall a great entry and the border is not that distracting. Well done.
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05/06/2005 12:51:52 AM
center blurr is intentional as enchantment? gl
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